ANKARA (AA) – The 1995 Dayton Accords, which ended the deadly war among Bosnian Serbs, Croats, and Muslim Bosniaks, was not a deal aiming for a solution in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Turkish president has said. “Regarding Bosnia and Herzegovina, in my meeting with the leaders during my visit there, if it is asked where this distress [&helli...
LONDON (AA) – Britain’s longest-serving monarch Queen Elizabeth II died at the age of 96, the Buckingham Palace said Thursday. “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” said the palace. “The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow,” it added....
XANTHI, Greece (AA) – In defiance of state intervention, Greece’s 150,000-strong Muslim Turkish minority is set to elect their new religious leader. The elections — in which two candidates, Mustafa Trampa and Mustafa Kamo, are running — will be held following Friday prayer in Xanthi province of the Western Thrace. Speaking to...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria will be able to send more liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe by winter, the country’s minister of state for petroleum resources said Thursday. Timipre Sylva told the Gastech 2022 conference in Milan, Italy, his country is currently delaying additional gas deliveries because of security problems. However, ...
DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani held talks on Wednesday with EU Council President Charles Michel to discuss energy cooperation. Discussions between the two sides dwelt on ways of developing bilateral cooperation in the energy field as well as regional and international developments, the state news ag...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has criticised Albania’s decision to sever diplomatic relations with Tehran as “ill-considered” and “short-sighted”, denying involvement in a July cyberattack targeting the European country. In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani termed the Albanian government’s move as “short-sighted in intern...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claims that nearly all of the grain leaving Ukraine’s ports under a recently brokered pact is bound for the EU. State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said the Russian leader’s allegation against the Black Sea Grain Initiative “simply is not...
LONDON (AA) – Food prices in Europe that have already reached alarming levels in a year due to the boom in demand after the coronavirus pandemic, growing supply chains issues, the Russia-Ukraine war, and surging energy and logistics costs are expected to rise further in the coming period due to the climate crisis. Euro-area annual [&hell...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia on Wednesday blacklisted senior EU military and law enforcement officials, as well as weapon producers supplying arms to Ukraine. In a Foreign Ministry statement, Moscow said arms deliveries to Ukraine from the EU showed that Brussels did not want to “invest” in peace in Ukraine, but rather in prolonging ...
ANKARA (AA) – The US has “strongly” condemned Iran’s alleged cyberattack on NATO ally Albania, saying it will take “further action to hold Iran accountable”. “We join in Prime Minister Rama’s call for Iran to be held accountable for this unprecedented cyber incident. The United States will take further actio...
